A1) The Nazz - Open My Eyes
A2) The Easybeats - Good Times
A3) Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About a Mover
A4) Can - Outside Your Door
A5) The Music Machine - People in Me
A6) Wynder K.Frog - I’m A Man
A7) Sharon Tandy - Hold On
B1) The Hombres - Let it All Hang Out
B2) The Left Banke - I’ve Got Something on My Mind
B3) The Seeds - The Wind Blows Your Hair
B4) The Apple - Buffalo Billycan
B5) Dantalion’s Chariot - ‘Madman Rising Through the Fields’
B6) The End - Shades of Orange
B7) Warm Sounds - Night Is a Comin’
C1) The Velvet Underground - Foggy Notion
C2) The Modern Lovers - She Cracked
C3) Kim Fowley - Bubblegum
C4) The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature
C5) Fleur De Lys - Circles **
C6) The Starlets - You Don’t Love Me
D1) The Turtles - Buzz Saw
D2) Lothar and The Hand - People Machines
D3) The Open Mind - Magic Potion
D4) The Swinging Medallions - Double Shot of My Baby’s Love
D5) Simon Dupree and The Big Sound - I See the Light
D6) The Action - I’ll Keep on Holding On **
D7) The Creation - How Does It Feel to Feel
D8) The Third Eye - Pass Myself
wo-Piers brings you their latest killer compilation in the shape of Richard Norris Presents ‘Weird Scenes from the Hangout (Psychedelic & Freakbeat Dancefloor Anthems 1967-1982). An album curated by Richard Norris (The Grid, Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve, The Time and Space Machine, and more) and centred around Richard’s Liverpool Club Night ’The Hangout’ in the 1980’s.
Musically, the Hangout’s take on psychedelia and freakbeat had one aim - to make you dance. We weren’t trainspotters – it didn’t matter if a record was rare, so long as it grooved and worked on the dancefloor. We’d give equal time to the more bandwagon end of sixties exploitation as to hipper acts. I’d pick up tracks on shopping trips in London with Phil Smee from Bam Caruso, or at Probe in Liverpool, where there was a class selection of psychedelia. Bob and Mick from Probe, and their mate Bernie Connor, became Hangout DJ’s, and brought even further mind-bending madness to the Hangout dancefloor. Standout tunes got played again and again, every week, until tracks like The Left Banke’s ‘I’ve Got Something on My Mind’, the Turtles ‘Buzzsaw’, Can’s ‘Outside Your Door’ and all the other tunes you now hold in your hands, became bona fide Hangout club anthems. The Hangout came and went in a flash, but its legacy of bringing psychedelic foot stompers to the dancefloor carries on. The Hangout left me with a personal love of all things beat and freak. I’ve been pursuing various musical shapes that all have their roots on the Hangout’s psychedelic dancefloor ever since. I hope you enjoy this compilation. Every track is a tried and tested Hangout anthem - Richard Norris, Lewes, August 2024.
2LP Limited pressing on Neon Pink & Transparent Curacao Double Vinyl.
